• bookworms (13)in #prophecy • yesterday

  [Literature] Charles Dickens: Barnaby Rudge - with the original illustrations #4/376

  The evening with which we have to do, was neither a summer nor an autumn one, but the twilight of a day in March, when the wind howled dismally among the bare branches of the…

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• bookworms (13)in #maypoles • 8 days ago

  [Literature] Charles Dickens: Barnaby Rudge - with the original illustrations #3/376

  CHAPTER THE FIRSTINthe year 1775, there stood upon the borders of Epping Forest, at a distance of about twelve miles from London— measuring from the Standard in Cornhill*or…

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• bookworms (13)in #popery • 12 days ago

  [Literature] Charles Dickens: Barnaby Rudge - with the original illustrations #2/376

  But perhaps we do not know it in our hearts too well, to profit by even so humble an example as the ‘No Popery’ riots of Seventeen Hundred and Eighty.“However imperfectly those…

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• bookworms (13)in #ravenless • 2 months ago

  [Literature] Charles Dickens: Barnaby Rudge - with the original illustrations #1/376

  PREFACEASit is Mr. Waterton’s opinion that ravens are gradually becoming extinct in England, I offer a few words here about mine.The raven in this story is a compound of two…

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